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Average age of gamer is 29 ! ... or 50+ ?

Posted on Wednesday, 31 December 2003 by DoubleD, source: Fragland
The Salt Lake Tribune has picked up on a survey conducted by British developer and publisher Codemasters. The results are -much alike the article- interesting and amusing yet should not be taken too serious.

The survey learns us that:
  • 21% of all gamers are teenagers
  • 47% are twentysomething
  • 32% are 50+
And the average age of you -the gamer- is 29. Which could be more or less correct, seen as different studies put the average age of gamers around 27 ... and those were conducted over a year ago :)
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But the interesting part is the growing amount of older gamers who, according to Codemasters, generally play one to three hours a day on all platforms. Kids... hide your games !

The past two years, a lot of WWII games were brought onto the market and according to British media investigators Xtreme Information the reason for the increase of 'older gamers' can be found there.

Read the article HERE.
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